[PRE REVIEW]: IndeterminateBeam: A Python package for solving 1D indeterminate beams

[whedon]

Submitting author: @JesseBonanno (Jesse Bonanno)
Repository: https://github.com/JesseBonanno/IndeterminateBeam
Version: v1.1.0
Editor: Pending
Reviewer: Pending
Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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Statistical information for the repository 'b8d37468bdbf7eff7cfdfc9d' was
gathered on 2020/12/26.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
JesseBonanno                    31         37978          36185          100.00

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JesseBonanno               1793            4.7          0.2               10.43

[whedon]

Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.21105/jose.00065 is OK
- 10.1109/MCSE.2007.55 is OK
- 10.7717/peerj-cs.103 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- None

INVALID DOIs

- None

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #2930 with the following error:

/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon.rb:147:in check_fields': Paper YAML header is missing expected fields: affiliations (RuntimeError) from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon.rb:89:in initialize'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon/processor.rb:38:in new' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon/processor.rb:38:in set_paper'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/bin/whedon:58:in prepare' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in run'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in invoke_command' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor.rb:387:in dispatch'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/base.rb:466:in start' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/bin/whedon:131:in <top (required)>'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bin/whedon:23:in load' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bin/whedon:23:in

'

[danielskatz]

👋 @JesseBonanno - I'm unsure if this fits JOSS, so the editors will now discuss if it meets JOSS's scope for review, specifically to make sure that we consider it research software (and also possible to check the size/scholarly effort of the software). This normally would take about a week, but might take longer due to the holidays.

Also, I notice that your paper does not compile due to an error in the affiliations, specifically that you didn't list one for you. Please add an affiliation, following the example in our sample, and then add a comment here starting with @whedon generate pdf to regenerate the PDF.

[danielskatz]

@whedon query scope

[whedon]

Submission flagged for editorial review.

[JesseBonanno]

Hi @danielskatz - I agree that it appeared to be fairly weak when considering the scope. I mainly have submitted this with consideration that it was a significant improvement to a previous published article (in fact that is how I found out about JOSS).

Okay, I didn't get the affiliation error when I used the Whedon paper preview service. Just letting you know in case this is something you would like to flag on your end.

I don't actually have any affiliations and have done this independently to help with creating higher order structural engineering python projects. I will add a blank affiliations section and hopefully that effectively resolves the issue, and is also okay by the JOSS criteria.

[JesseBonanno]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #2930 with the following error:

/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon.rb:213:in parse_affiliations': undefined method each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon.rb:199:in parse_authors' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon.rb:93:in initialize'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon/processor.rb:38:in new' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/lib/whedon/processor.rb:38:in set_paper'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/bin/whedon:58:in prepare' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in run'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in invoke_command' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor.rb:387:in dispatch'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/base.rb:466:in start' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bundler/gems/whedon-92346a0773a4/bin/whedon:131:in <top (required)>'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bin/whedon:23:in load' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/bin/whedon:23:in

'

[JesseBonanno]

@danielskatz - I am going to add a dummy affiliation in named "None" as suggested in this issue thread.

[JesseBonanno]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

👉📄 Download article proof 📄 View article proof on GitHub 📄 👈

[arfon]

@JesseBonanno - many thanks for your submission to JOSS. After a review by our editorial team, this submission has been determined as out of scope for JOSS.

I agree that it appeared to be fairly weak when considering the scope. I mainly have submitted this with consideration that it was a significant improvement to a previous published article (in fact that is how I found out about JOSS).

Please note, your earlier comment (and link) was to a JOSE paper, and we believe this submission may be better suited for that journal too.

[arfon]

@whedon reject

[whedon]

Paper rejected.

[JesseBonanno]

@arfon My mistake, thank you for pointing it out!